Archives: Teachers/Speakers

Kathya Alexander is an author, playwright, storyteller, and teaching artist. Growing up in the segregated South in the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement greatly impacted her life and continues to

Zach Polis is a Canadian screenwriter, playwright, and former poet laureate. He has been featured with British Vogue, Vogue Italia, and Teen Vogue. The Zookeeper is his debut novel.

Roxanne Guiney (she/her) is the owner of Haunted Burrow Books, a temporary bookstore in Capitol Hill focusing on horror, fantasy, and other moody books. An editor by trade and a

Elwin L. Wirkala grew up in Naselle, Washington, where he developed an early passion for poetry inspired by Henley’s Invictus and his parents’ readings of the Bible. While studying English

Alexa Brahme is an author based in Brooklyn, NY. She studied creative writing at Vanderbilt University and received her MFA in Fiction from The New School. Her short fiction has

By day, Kyle Robinson is a Senior Software Quality Engineer at Adobe, hunting bugs with the precision of a master duelist. By night, he trades the keyboard for a sword

Daniel works in tech by day and loves to build mechanical keyboards and go to local keyboard meetups. He's also a musician, rapper and saxophone player who loves his wife,

Amy is a hairstylist/toddler mom by day and musician/streamer by night. She is the co-founder of the first Vietnamese twitch team creating a space for gamers to also bond over